Well, yeah. Pirated games are also much more convenient to run nowadays with all the launcher logins and DRM checks that games go through. If I get a game from EGS that requires any other kind of check, I already have the game for free, but I’ll grab a pirated copy jist so I can launch it will a single click.

Piracy is the only way I got into gaming. My parents were never going to spend the amount of money they did on my gaming habit. I got by with a home built cobbled together PC and Napster/limewire with cracks from game copy world. When I grew up and finally had income of my own I went back and purchased every single game I loved so I could keep it in my collection.